Firefox: setting default e-mail client

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Mike

I've tried to configure Firefox so that Pegasus Mail opens when I click on
an e-mail hyperlink, rather than Lookout Express. I can't find the place to
do that. Can anyone help, please? TIA.

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Open Pegasus & look in Options or something similar & make default .
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That isn't where the problem lies. I need to change something *in Firefox*
so that a clicked "mailto:" hyperlink opens Pegasus, not Lookout.

Aha -- perversely, the solution lies in the IE settings. I have selected
Pegasus as my default e-mail client in IE's Internet Tools | Programs, and
now Firefox obediently follows.

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Mike said:
That isn't where the problem lies. I need to change something *in Firefox*
so that a clicked "mailto:" hyperlink opens Pegasus, not Lookout.

Aha -- perversely, the solution lies in the IE settings. I have selected
Pegasus as my default e-mail client in IE's Internet Tools | Programs, and
now Firefox obediently follows.
Click to expand...

It's all the same thing, just different approaches. The more
interesting question would be how to spec a non-default client in FF.

p.
 
It's all the same thing, just different approaches. The more
interesting question would be how to spec a non-default client in
FF.
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The preference network.protocol-handler.app.mailto should do it. Its
type should be string and its value should be the full path to the mail
app.
 
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